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Dr Who scriptwriter Steven Moffat on why he loves the Tardis

Lydia Slater

May 19 2012, 1:01am, The Times

Steven Moffat became head writer of Dr Who in 2008Times photographer, Amit Lennon

Steven Moffat’s neat little villa near Kew Gardens looks as suburban as its neighbours. But things are not what they seem. For one thing, it contains a piece of the Tardis. “It’s a wee keyboard that they weren’t going to use any more so they gave it to me. I was quite excited by that,” Moffat says.

The sitting room is normal-looking, furnished with green sofas, a fluffy cat and Moffat himself, a chunky, grizzled 50-year-old. But surrounding the TV is an entire wall of awards including a clutch of Baftas, the first, now tarnished, won for Press Gang, which he wrote 20 years ago, the latest carried off on Sunday at the British Academy Television Craft Awards for writing Sherlock.